Landing at Saidor

When

2 Jan 1944

Kind

Event

Coordinates

5.63° S, 146.47° E

Description

Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.

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Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat

Allied amphibious landing of World War II

The landing at Saidor, codenamed Operation Michaelmas, was an Allied amphibious landing at Saidor, Territory of New Guinea on 2 January 1944 as part of Operation Dexterity during World War II. An airbase at Saidor could secure the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits, the ultimate objective of General Douglas MacArthur's Huon Peninsula campaign, but the immediate objective was to cut off the 6,000 Imperial Japanese troops retr…

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